And since those contracts aren't sufficiently configured for text search, and all contracts would have to be properly processed and redacted, that would take an estimated "15 million labor hours" and cost somewhere around $660 million. In response to a request for how many of a certain type of forensic device the Pentagon's Office of the Secretary of Defense had in their possession, the Agency's FOIA office responded that the only way to determine that would be to search every active contract. The Six Hundred Sixty Million FOIA Request While we can't say for sure where ICE was looking during that year and a half, we do know where they didn't check – their own website, where it turns out the documents had been posted in plain sight. Why is it always the last place you look …Īfter 17 months of exhaustive search, ICE closed out a FOIA request for memos related to President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, stating that no such records could be found. Perhaps there were concerns that the period came off as passive-aggressive. After that was appealed, the FCC, likely fearing a lawsuit, finally released unredacted copies revealing that it had spent the last year trying to prevent the release of an email that simply stated "Ok." After an appeal, the agency released redacted versions of the emails citing the same exemption. In response to a request for emails related to a now-infamous video showing FCC Chairman doing the Harlem Shake to downplay the importance Net Neutrality, the agency at first rejected the request in its entirety, saying that releasing that information would have a "chilling effect" on the FCC's ability to perform its duties. The ever-vigilant FBI, keeping us safe from sunlight-seeking supervillains, yet again. Though the Bureau redacted the reporter's name, citing their right to privacy, it's not that hard to guess that our intrepid interviewer is Clark Kent – better known as the alter-ego of Superman. In a release of records related to Scientology, the FBI included a short, fictionalized dialogue between a former member of the Church and "the star reporter of The Daily Planet. In the spirit of Sunshine Week, we've compiled some of the weirdest, wildest, and downright hilarious redactions we've received. I suspect we will see a lot more hispandering from Team Clinton before November, 2016…but not much truth.After nine years and over 60,000 requests, MuckRock has been witness to some pretty impressive efforts to keep public information from the public. Clinton’s case, the Internet soon gave new currency to the word“Hispandering.” Sanders’s campaign took steps to distance him from the hashtag.) Clinton’s main challenger, Bernie Sanders, have long referred to him as #TioBernie on Twitter. Clinton is not the only politician who has attempted playful acknowledgment of Latino culture: Jeb Bush, a Republican contender whose wife is Mexican-American, sold a “guaca bowle” on his website, and supporters of Mrs. Others just made their points with the magic of memes. Clinton did not grow up poor like their relatives, and was not separated from loved ones by country borders. Soon, the hashtag #NotMyAbuela was circulating as a critique of what some saw as a tone-deaf move to pander to a powerful butmarginalized bloc of voters. The uproar started when a content strategist posted 7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your Abuela. For example, the Clinton team is trying to “reset” a social media meme that generated a fun, new term: Hispandering. It will be intriguing what Clinton defines as “situational awareness”, as it appears there is little of it in any environment she occupies. Other emails include periodic press clippings about the state of Benghazi in the years after the incident, which were meant to give staffers “situational awareness.” Several of the emails discuss the drafting of an assessment of the threat level ahead of the attack, which was being prepared for Congress in the months after four Americans were killed in the attack. The Hill offers the following analysis of what little print was left to view.
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